Monogram Millwork: Catalog No. 500 (1919) — Paperback Reprint

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About this book

Catalog No. 500 from the Wilbur Lumber Company is not a book about millwork — it is millwork, in print. This 1919 trade catalog's 378 pages present the company's monogram millwork line: carved monogram panels, ornamental moldings, and architectural woodwork made to personalize storefronts, offices, clubs, and fine homes.

Trade catalogs like this were the working libraries of builders, architects, and finish carpenters. Wilbur's pages show monogram designs ready to be carved or applied — the ornamental woodwork vocabulary of the late 1910s, from restrained classical panels to the richer period styles then in fashion. For anyone restoring a 1910s interior or researching period architectural ornament, these catalog pages are primary evidence of what was actually available and installed.

Woodcarvers will find the monogram designs directly adaptable to carving projects; restoration architects can match catalog illustrations to surviving woodwork; and collectors of antique trade catalogs prize volumes like this for their documentary value. Sign painters and gilders lettering monograms today can study the period forms for historically honest work, while woodcarvers will appreciate the joinery and molding profiles shown throughout.

Whether you carve, restore, or collect, this 1919 Wilbur Lumber catalog is a substantial piece of American trade history. 378 pages of monogram millwork, exactly as the trade sold it.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 378 pages, black and white interior, cream paper.

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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1919 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1919 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1919 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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